Senior Writing
Complete and Submit Portfolio
Go over Unit 3 Test – Retake Options
After school Wed or Thur
In class on Fri
Unit 4 – Lesson 1 and 2
Analyzing an argument via commercials
• Portfolio Assembly
• Finish Revising
• Two key elements of success – Revision and Follow Directions
• Use your Ten Errors guide as you revise
• Be sure to review comments
• Save often as you work
• Be sure you have typed or written draft with MY
COMMENTS behind your final: About Me/Philosophy,
Employment Skills, Article Report (from Turnitin),
Activity/Recommendation, Argument (from Turnitin), and
Application Essay.
Portfolio – Final Work Day
- Monday
• Please come in and sit at a table of 3 or 4.
• Please put electronics away – there is no need of them today.
• There is an instruction sheet on the table.
• General Idea – swap portfolios to review and check for errors or
omissions. Fix if possible.
• Today is not a work day. If you treat it as such, it will affect your
reflection page.
• Share your portfolio with your group. Must read aloud one piece.
• Complete Reflection form
• Celebrate
Tuesday – Submission
Day
Learning Target:
Demonstrate ability to edit for sentence errors,
punctuation, agreement and case, and modifier
errors.
Wednesday/Thursday
Unit 3 Retake, Parallelism, Reference, and
How to write analysis for Exam
GO OVER UNIT 3 TEST
Please find all instruction pages for Units 1, 2, 3.
Discuss retakes
• Parallelism – means making words, phrases, or clauses
that are linked sound the same.
• Example: After school I drive my little sister home, do
my homework, and cooking dinner.
• “cooking dinner” does not match the rest of the list.
• Revision: After school, I drive my little sister home, do
my homework, and cook dinner.
• Review Lesson 1 – p. 55 and do exercise 1 at bottom of
it.
Unit 4, Lesson 1
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Review the explanation on top of P. 55
Do Exercise One on bottom of P. 55. 1-4
After correcting, do p. 56 –
Correct p. 56
Bring in a resume for tomorrow – we will discuss
parallelism in reference to them.
Complete Les. 1, Exercise 1
Correct Unit 1-3 Review
Correct Parallelism p. 56
• Focus on what you know.
• Clarify what you do not
• Recognize something as
not parallel
• Recognize there are
multiple ways to correct
Thursday
• Pronoun Reference – Lack of clarity for a pronoun: he, she, it, them,
they, that, which.
• Requires rewriting and for YOU to make a decision on meaning.
• Many of you said “they” in your article report. Sometimes you
meant the articles; sometimes you meant an animal, a person, or the
subject you were writing about. This created confusion as to who
“they” referred.
• http://www.towson.edu/ows/modulepro.htm
The supervisors told the employees they would be getting a bonus.
So who is getting the bonus?
Do and Correct p. 58.
Do Final Mastery Review – for Friday P. 63-69
Pronoun Reference
Learning Target
Demonstrate ability to recognize errors in parallelism and reference.
Demonstrate ability to recognize techniques used by advertisers and to
recognize audience and purpose of commercials and their techniques.
• Product?
• Audience?
• Techniques: Pathos, Ethos, Logos, and others
(bandwagon, glittering, exaggeration, understatement,
individuality, etc.)
• Consider main method, effectiveness for given audience.
Analyzing Arguments with
in Commercials
• Intro – Summary of ad,
identify product
• Body – minimum of 3
paragraphs – discussing
three different
techniques –
• ID technique
Give examples
Explain examples
Comment on examples
Analysis
• Conclusion
• sum up what was most
used
• comment on its
effectiveness
• connect to audience
• other reflections on ad
• Example 1 SF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I
• Example 2 VW
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0
• Example 3 MJ and B
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1shK-j_u6LI
• Example 4P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6q0ft48Jpw
Practice analyzing
• Correct Final Mastery Review – Friday
• Unit 3 Retake
• Practice putting together an analysis of a commercial
Friday